Hi monkers

have a small problem which looks like
http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=366431
i want to make a replacement inline, so a replace in replace so here is the code 

$content =~ s/(\w+)(: *)([^\n]*)\n<xxxxyyxxxx>\n/$1.":".$2.encode_base
+64($3,'')."\n"/ges;

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for now it doesn't work if $3 contains multiples lines (aka '\n')

first case, rewrite the rule to make replacement on multiple lines. In general i have few success with this.

seconde case, before this code, i decode the code. so there i can replace '\n' with '%%NEWLINE%%' for example and in the above line reverse.
s/%%NEWLINE%%/\n/ is ok, but how can i make it in the previous line ?


thanks
note: code use with perl/redhat enterprise or activeperl 5.8/winxp

In reply to inline replacement in existing regex by raiten

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